Philippine Navy security personnel keep watch at the Pier of Jolo

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Saudi News Today, Monday, May 03, 2011

Philippine Navy security personnel keeps watch at the Pier of Jolo, Sulu province, southern Philippines, on 03 May 2011. Philippine President Benigno Aquino III urged Filipino people to be vigilant for possible retaliatory attacks, following an announcement by US President Barack Obama that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed. Aquino said his national security team would take 'the necessary precautions and steps to ensure the safety' of the Philippine people.

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Phl Navy launches ‘Admiral’s Cup’

By PNA and U.S. News Agency / Asian, Tuesday, May 03, 2011

The Philippine Navy (PN) commenced its Admiral’s Cup Tuesday at the Navy Headquarters on Roxas Boulevard, Malate, Manila in commemoration of the 113th Navy Anniversary this May 20, 2011.

A yearly event to highlight sportsmanship and camaraderie among the Fleet- Marine Team, the Admiral’s Cup signals a two week-long event composed of several aqua sports and other traditional sports.

Participated in by all units from the Navy all over the Philippines, this sporting event hopes to strengthen both mind, body, and spirit among all Navymen.

Philippine Navy Flag Officer in Command Admiral Alexander Pama said, “This year’s Admiral’s Cup must ensure the value of enhancing brotherhood between the Navy’s Fleet-Marine Team to further its partnership.”

He added that sporting events such as this should form part of the Navy’s year round sports activities to promote the Navyman’s physical fitness program.

This year’s Admiral’s Cup is launched at the Navy Headquarters in Roxas Blvd, Manila. Among the breaking sports are the Tug-of-War and the Rubber Boat Race at the nearby Manila Yacht Club Basin.

A parade of participating contingents opened the ceremony followed by the traditional Oath of Sportsmanship lead by Col. Ernesto Ravina Jr, the Naval Special Services Officer.

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FOIC's Airsoft gun test

Photo By Jonjon Vicencio

The Philippine Star, Sunday, May 1, 2011

Vice Admiral Alexander Pama, Flag officer in Command of the Philippine Navy, tests an airsoft gun during the opening of the assault armor and force reconnaissance of the Marine Corps together with civilian airsoft enthusiasts at the Marine base in Ternate, Cavite.

Plot to bomb Cotabato lodging houses foiled

By John Unson

The Philippine Star, Friday, April 29, 2011

COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Members of the Marine Battalion Landing Team 7 (MBLT-7) and the local police foiled on Wednesday night a plot by suspected extremists to bomb lodging houses in this city.

Lt. Col. Dorotheo Jose Jalandoni, commanding officer of MBLT-7, said policemen and Marines, acting on information from barangay officials, found the improvised explosives after an extensive search using bomb-sniffing dogs in one of the rooms of the N.D. Avenue Lodging House.

Authorities said the bombs were apparently hidden there as part of a bigger plot to bomb two lodging houses in the city’s main commercial district.

Jalandoni said the improvised explosives, fashioned from an 81-mm and two 60-mm mortar projectiles rigged with trip wire, were immediately detonated outside the lodging house.

Jalandoni said two handguns were also found in a bag in the same room at N.D. Avenue Lodging House.

Police intelligence sources said they have been receiving persistent but unverified reports that the group behind the bombing plot is composed of newly trained followers of foreign-trained bomber Basit Usman.

Usman was tagged as the mastermind in more than a dozen bombings in public places and buses in Central Mindanao from 2003 to 2009.

Usman, an ethnic Maguindanaon, was said to have undergone training in handling and fabrication of explosives in Kandahar, Afghanistan and Peshawar, Pakistan in the 1990s. – With Roel Pareño, Jaime Laude

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